Package edu.ucsb.cs156.gauchoride.controllers

Class ApiController

java.lang.Object

edu.ucsb.cs156.gauchoride.controllers.ApiController

Direct Known Subclasses:

RideRequestController, SystemInfoController, UserInfoController, UsersController

public abstract class ApiController
extends Object

Base class for all API controllers. Provides a method to get the current user as well as common methods for error handling.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ApiController()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected Object	genericMessage(String message)	This creates a plain old java object that can be returned as a JSON response
protected CurrentUser	getCurrentUser()	Get the current user
Object	handleGenericException(Throwable e)	This catches any EntityNotFoundExceptions and returns a 404 (NOT_FOUND) response

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

ApiController

public ApiController()

Method Details

getCurrentUser

protected CurrentUser getCurrentUser()

Get the current user

Returns:

the current user

genericMessage

protected Object genericMessage(String message)

This creates a plain old java object that can be returned as a JSON response

Returns:

a Map object with a single key/value pair: "message" => message

handleGenericException

@ExceptionHandler(EntityNotFoundException.class)
@ResponseStatus(NOT_FOUND)
public Object handleGenericException(Throwable e)

This catches any EntityNotFoundExceptions and returns a 404 (NOT_FOUND) response

Returns:

a Map object that can be returned as a JSON response